Reorder, Remove, and Edit Photos within Photo Album in
PowerPoint 2013

Learn how to reorder, remove, and edit photos within photo album in
PowerPoint 2013.

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Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2013OS: Windows 7 and 8

Date Created: November 13, 2014Last Updated: November 13, 2014

The
Photo Album
feature in PowerPoint is not just limited to creating presentations that contain photos. You can edit
the photo content in many ways, since the
Edit Photo
Album dialog box provides abundant possibilities -- in this tutorial we'll explore some of these
edit options. For this tutorial we have created a sample Photo Album using several wallpaper pictures
from the free
National Geographic’s Photo of the Day collection.

Remember: Using a free photo from a web site such as National Geographic is intended
for personal use only -- don’t assume they are free to use anywhere. Read this article on
Picture Copyrights
which will help you understand this concept better.

Follow these steps to explore some of the editing options within the
Edit Photo Album dialog box in
PowerPoint 2013:

Open your existing Photo Album presentation, and choose the Insert tab |
Photo Album |
Edit Photo
Album option.

The Edit Photo Album dialog box opens with your Photo Album, as shown in
Figure 1. The area highlighted in red within
Figure 1 includes the options you will learn about in this tutorial -- these are
reorder, remove, rotate, contrast, and brightness.

Figure 1: Edit Photo Album dialog box

Figure 2 shows the marked options which are explained below.

Figure 2: Edit options

Pictures in album: This section displays the list of pictures used within the
opened Photo Album presentation. Here you can select any individual photo to edit using the options
we discuss next.

Preview: This section displays the preview of the photo you have selected within
the Pictures in album section.

Reorder: These two buttons enable you to rearrange, i.e. move a selected photo up
or down in the list.

Remove: Delete the selected photo from the Photo Album -- this does not delete the
actual picture on your computer though.

Rotate: These two buttons allow you to Rotate Right and Rotate Left
by 900 -- to rotate any picture 1800, just click any of these two buttons
twice.

Contrast: Use the two contrast buttons to increase and decrease the contrast
level.

Brightness: These two buttons increase and decrease the brightness level.

Remember: There are no Reset options to undo any changes you make using the edit
options explained above -- so be careful before you make any of the changes -- even if you make any
changes, these are not applied until you press the Update button that we explain later
in this tutorial.

In Figure 3 you can see the same selected file (refer to Figure 1,
shown earlier on this page) moved up in the list, and its brightness levels
increased.

Figure 3: Photo reordered, and brightness level increased

When done with any changes you make, click the Update button (highlighted in
red within Figure 3 above) to apply the changes to your
Photo Album. If you do not want to make any changes, do click the Cancel button to
return to the Photo Album presentation without making any changes.

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